Anyone+Can+be+Affected

Children, Teenagers, and Adults can be affected.
One child example that has been seen and followed over the years is January Schofield

She is one of the rarest cases that has been seen for schizophrenia. She was diagnosed at around the age of three. Her family knew that when she was young there was something that was wrong mentally with her because as a baby she wouldn't sleep, and as years went on she began to get easily distracted by things that were not even there. She has her own world called Catalini and she has animals with names that are numbers such as the cat 400 as she calls him who tells her to do bad things to people. As she grew older she began to become more and more violent.

Treatments- January is given Tegretol, Thorazine, and Lithium to make her hallucinations bearable and make her be able to have contact with the real world. Her family has had to rent two apartments in the same complex in fear for her little brother who she has tried to harm multiple times. Both her and her brother have their own apartments and their parents trade off every night with who sleeps in which apartment. Many of the medications that are given to January are in doses that are ment for adults and some doses are larger than any adult would be given. The Schofield's have tried to find different homes for schizophrenic people that will take January because although they don't want to send her away, they aren't sure what to do anymore. The complications with sending January to such a home is that she is so young, and many homes refuse to take a child so young. January has spent 133 days at UCLA hospital for treatment at one time. The apartment that January lives in is modeled after the hospital to give her a more calmed effect.